Container



Patented Feb, 7, 1928.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK J. MAGDONALD, F AKRON, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE B. 1". GOODRICH COM-PANY,:OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A. CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

CONTAINER.

Application filed November 10, 1924. Serial No. 748,845.

This invention relates to handles, attachment devices or the like forcontainers such as battery jars, and is especially applicable to acontainer molded of plastic material 6 and provided with a metal handleor attachment device embedded in or secured to the material of thecontainer.

My chief object is to provide a container with a device of thischaracter which may 10 be readily and firmly anchored to the mate rialof the container without the presence of a metal member at or adjacentthe inner surface thereof, such as might lessen the insulating efi'ectof the materiab A further object is to provide for economy and forfacility of assembly and disassembly of such a device. Another object isto provide a device of this character which will not require extensivemodification of existing types of jars.

Of the accompanying drawings:

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a battery jar having handles embodyingmy invention in its preferred form.

Fig. 2 is a section on line 22 of Fig. 1. Referring to the drawings, thebattery jar, 10, is formed, for each handle, with a relatively thickwall portion or lug 11 projecting from the outer face of the jar. Thelug is may be either molded or cut therein, each being adapted snugly toreceive the hooked or bent end portion 12 of a clamp or anchorage member13 which is so formed as to bear against the upper face of the lug inits medial portion 14, and to rise from the lug,

with its outer face flush with the outer face of the lug, in its otherend portion, 15. The lug is formed with recesses in its lower face,which may be either molded or cut therein, each being adapted snugly toreceive the li'ooked or bent end portion 16 of a U- shaped clamp oranchorage member 17 which is so formed as to fit against the lower andouter faces of the lug in the medial portions 18, 18 of its two legs,and against the upper portion 15 of the clamp member 13 in the upperportions, 19, 19 of its legs, the upper end portions 19 and 15 formedwith recesses in its upper face, which,

of the opposed clamp members being formed with registrable holes forbolts 20, 20 provided with nuts 21, 21 for holding the clamp member-stogether in the relation described, the construction being such thatthey are thereby securely interlocked with the material of the lug as torelative movement in all' directions.

The U-form of the clamp member 17 provides a hand hole 22 adapting it toserve as a handle, and the upper portion thereof may be formed with arolled bead 23 to provide a suitable bearing for the fingers, tostrengthen or brace the clamp member, and to provide a suitable bearingfor the holddoWn hooks or clamps commonly used for securing the batteryjar in place on an automobile.

v The clamp member's, although firmly interlocked with the jar when thenut 21 is set up on the bolt20, may be readily mounted and dismounted,as for shipment of the jar, when the bolt 20 is removed, by simplyhooking them in their, recesses or slipping them therefrom.

VWhile in the specific construction here shown the lug 11 is flush withthe top or mouth of the jar, for convenience in molding and in mountingthe clamp member 13, and each clamp member is so formed and mounted asdirectly to interlock against movement perpendicular to as well as alongthe adjacent face of the lug, which is to say that they have roughly afish-hook form, which gives them a very secure anchorage, and while forconvenience I prefer to cut the clan1p-rcceiv ing recesses in the lugs11, I do not wholly limit my claims to these or other specific detailsof construction, as my invention is susceptible of modification withinits scope.

I claim:

'1. A container comprising a body of dielectric material formed with twoadjacent pairs of closed-bottomed recesses in its outer face, a U-shapedanchorage member having the end portion of each of its legs engaged in arecess of one of said pairs, and clamping means engaged in the otherrecesses and secured to said anchorage member, the latter t and theclamping means as a unit being nonseparably interlocked with thecontainer when thus secured together.

2. Ahattery container molded with a plucesses and clampedtogether incontact with each other and in interlocked relation to the container. 1In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 6th day of November,1924.

FRANKNJ. MACDONALD.

